From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 16 12:11:46 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 462E8106568F for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:11:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from nyi.unixathome.org (nyi.unixathome.org [64.147.113.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AB3C8FC08 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:11:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A03A850830; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:11:45 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixathome.org Received: from nyi.unixathome.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nyi.unixathome.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id og9-1qs6Mjgt; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:11:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-auth.unixathome.org (smtp-auth.unixathome.org [10.4.7.7]) (Authenticated sender: hidden) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 04F4150823 ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:11:39 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4B7A8B75.5050801@langille.org> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:11:33 -0500 From: Dan Langille Organization: The FreeBSD Diary User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <4B7980E0.1020907@langille.org> <4B79B6BB.1060809@comcast.net> <201002161054.04696.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <4B79E5FE.7040200@langille.org> <4B7A815B.9020502@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <4B7A815B.9020502@quip.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:11:46 -0000 On 2/16/2010 6:28 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: >> Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > [...] > >>> Why even bother with the LSI card at all? >>> That board already has 6 SATA slots - depends how many disks you want >>> to use of course. (5 HDs + 1 DVD drive?) >> >> Plus two SATA drives in a gmirror for the base OS, and one optical. I >> want a minimum of 8 slots. > > I think that 2 HDDs in gmirror just for base OS is an overkill if you > want this machine as home storage. You will be fine with booting the > base OS from CF card or USB stick. (and you can put two USB flash disks > in gmirror if you want redundancy) > This way you will save some money, SATA ports/cards and if you will use > some kind of fast and big USB stick, you can use part of it as L2ARC for > speeding up read performance of ZFS > http://www.leidinger.net/blog/2010/02/10/making-zfs-faster/ > > I have my backup storage machine booted from USB stick (as read-only > UFS) with 4x 1TB HDDs in RAIDZ. It is running one and half year without > problem. I agree. However, the machine will be primarily storage, but it will also be running PostgreSQL and Bacula. I already have smaller unused SATA drives laying around here. Thank you -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/